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Paragraph 15: Here we encounter Kim's ironic twist on the theme of education. The senior reappears to remind us that in the end, the only truths are those which will be covered on the final exam...
...blood test to detect prostate cancer in its very earliest stages works far better than old-fashioned, unpleasant rectal examinations. In a recent study the newer method, called a prostate-specific antigen test, detected almost twice as many tumors as a manual exam...
...chat with Jones can be like an entrance exam to a higher, harder life form. Sit with him at a restaurant in Memphis, where he is shooting the John Grisham thriller The Client, and ask something innocuous, like what he reads. "The New York Times once a week . . . and also some secret trash books that will go unnamed, stashed hither and yon. I don't trust you enough to tell you the titles of all the books I'm reading." Well, which of his parts might he call a breakthrough role? A frown. "Breakfast roll? Oh, breakthrough role...
...that keeps extending itself in such a careless way, Chuck is a little bit bifurcated himself, falling into dreamy spells to escape the hubbub. Lacking a reliable father figure, he tells himself that regimentation will make a man of him. All he has to do is pass that entrance exam, and that's where McLeod, inhabiting a gloomy mansion in the Maine resort town where Chuck and family are vacationing, comes in. Pretty soon McLeod is talking out of both sides of his mouth -- a stern taskmaster one minute, an indulgent mentor the next -- and little Chuck is flourishing...
Artful Equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E's are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered form the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...